I’m spending quite a bit of time on university assignments and now I’m sitting in front of the computer wondering if everything really that worth it. Is gaining that little bit extra mark that worth it. The deadline is January 2, 2008.
I have assignments for e-business, Java and a computing course.
My e-business module is quite screwed. I can’t really put things to words. I know how things work roughly here and there, the lessons are interesting, concepts are quite refreshing generally. Unfortunately it is a quarter filled with common-sense knowledge. They are trying to document common-sense step-by-step which is wasting lots of time and trees.
They had this thing called general system analysis process where they cleverly broken down the analyzation process into 4 steps:
- Defining the problem
- Describing the situation in enough depth
- Designing potential improvements
- Deciding what to do
But isn’t this just normal thought process? Just like, I am late for work. So I start thinking why I am late for work and I realized it’s because I miss my bus. And next time I’ll reach the bus stop earlier. I decide to wake earlier to go take a bus.
I’m just amazed how they can break a thinking process into a flow diagram.
Okay, enough ranting. I’ll go finish up my e-business assignment now. I’ve finished the Java assignment already, that’s something to be relieved about at least.
Saw this in Singapore Management University’s toilet. Never really like the idea of facing a campaign notice when peeing, but well, this method of promotion is getting more popular these days.
(Say no to plastic bags, waste paper instead.)
Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) made me stayed at AIDS awareness posters for a month when I pee. One day, one day, advertisements will get into the toilets. It will not just be public service ads.
And you know… About that flyer, I really don’t get it why they choose to put the word ‘Campaign’ and underlined it instead of putting more emphasis on saying no to plastic bags. It’s almost as if someone wanted to create a campaign to tell everyone that they have a campaign going more so than creating environmental awareness. Strange sighting in toilet.
As the deadline for assignment nears, I watch my table pile with more and more notes and books. Soon I won’t be able to touch the surface of my table. Actually I can’t really see my table already.
(My table is so messy!)
Assignment’s quite hard for me. I’m not really good in all those computing hardware things and I sometimes just 浑水摸鱼 if you know what I mean. Hope everything goes fine. If you manage to spot me on MSN listening to X Japan, please shout at me to ALT + F4 my iTunes.
Hope that my friends have finished their assignments by now.
I’ve started schooling around 3 months back in Singapore Institute of Management through one of their University of London programmes. And because of that, I’ve got busier.
School has been interesting, learnt quite a bit from there. I’m not a good student though, spent most of my time looking around in class, getting distracted and picking out all the things that is just not important.
I have also involved myself with some work when I’m studying, working for a local start-up on Flash-related work.
I haven’t really got clearance to talk about my work yet so we’ll probably leave it for next time.
I still continue to read, read all sorts of things that don’t aid my school, don’t aid my work too. Perhaps it’s time to cut time from that.
At least my unofficial holidays are coming but then again, that would just mean work for me.
I entered math class half an hour late but I’m so glad I did that, the math is rather simple and it’s a total bore in there. I sat beside a Malay girl whom I believe is a mute. Sitting a little further down were a bunch of guys excitedly talking about some game they played. I tried listening in and finally concluded that they are playing MapleStory.
When a bunch of people talk here and there, the volume just goes higher and higher, soon the lecture theatre resembles the ambience of Carrefour hypermart at Plaza Singapura and that is when the lecturer step in to shut us up.
(So bored I tried writing numbers upside down.)
I didn’t have a book to read. I left my house at noon and brought out The Kite Runner (by Khaled Hosseini) to read but finished it before I got into the lecture theatre. The Kite Runner is a wonderful book by the way, very moving story too. Anyway, I sat there practicing writing my numbers upside down. I used to be able to do it quite well.
The lesson finished after 3 hours – okay 2.5 hours since I am late half hour – and I left for the bus stop. It’s the longest wait I had and I never seen so many people outside SIM before. They’re all waiting to board the bus.
The whole math class is getting more and more boring. Sometimes I wonder if I would get slack and stop attending the classes. I don’t feel that I am learning something particularly useful too, it’s secondary school Additional Mathematics and it is quite simple with no assignments. When my class starts on September, I hope I’ll be more hardworking than that for sure.
The GST hike is coming on July 1, 2007. Are you guys prepared? I noticed a lot of people rushing to snap up items recently.
I’m going to pay my school fees before July 1 too. My school fees is about SG$7000 and if I were to pay now, I get to ‘enjoy’ the limited time 5% GST. Any longer will amount to SG$140 extra due to the 2% GST increase. And SG$140 is quite a lot of money.
SG$140 can get me:
- 1 tennis racket
- 8 novels that I will take 8 years reading
- Half a year of web hosting for //beconfused
- 2 thick and useful computer books
- 1 pretty nice bicycle
- 1 year of Newsweek magazine
- An absolutely fabulous Brazilian buffet for 2
I’ll probably spend them buying 2 really thick and useful computer books that I have been eyeing for a while. Of course, the web hosting has to continue. My Newsweek magazine too. I just order Newsweek because it’s good to bring around. I’ll forget about the novels I guess. And the Brazilian buffet increases my blood pressure.
The chattering, the laughter, the childish jokes – they’re all back. I sat in front of 8 ladies in a lecture theatre listening to the lecturer introducing logarithm, quadratic equations and sets. It’s all something that I have learnt before and this course is more to cater to people who have basically forgotten all their mathematics.
I sat there writing some notes on my work (not the lecture basically) and unintentionally – okay, perhaps a little intentionally – eavesdrop on what the ladies are talking about. I tell you they make the most unfunny jokes you’ll ever hear. I couldn’t laugh. It’s just so cold! I felt the temperature drop each them they tried to misinterpret what the lecturer is trying to remark.
It’s actually like back in polytechnic. After I exit from the lecture hall, I looked at the other two-hundred students, all eagar to learn how to add and subtract. I saw two of my friends too. I perhaps won’t be that lonely this coming semester but it really depends. I can sense not a lot of people are serious about studying there. Most, like me, don’t seem to know why they are in a bloody mathematics class!
Still it felt good. I mean – school felt good. I shan’t complaint too much. Welcome to university, I said to myself. 